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Fetal Rights, Women's Rights: Gender Equality in the Workplace
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Paperback. Many US private employers have enacted foetal protection policies that barred women - that is, women who had not been surgically sterilised - working in jobs that might expose foetuses to toxins. This text analyses these policies and the ambiguous responses to them. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JPVH; KCF; KNXB; KNXC; LNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 327.
In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, many US private employers enacted foetal protection policies that barred women - that is, women who had not been surgically sterilised - from working in jobs that might expose foetuses to toxins. This text analyses these policies and the ambiguous responses to them by federal and state courts, legislatures, administrative agencies, litigants and interest groups. It poses provocative questions about the implicit links between social welfare concerns and paternalism in the workplace: are women workers or wombs? Placing the foetal protection controversy within the larger societal debate about gender roles, this text ... Read more
In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, many US private employers enacted foetal protection policies that barred women - that is, women who had not been surgically sterilised - from working in jobs that might expose foetuses to toxins. This text analyses these policies and the ambiguous responses to them by federal and state courts, legislatures, administrative agencies, litigants and interest groups. It poses provocative questions about the implicit links between social welfare concerns and paternalism in the workplace: are women workers or wombs? Placing the foetal protection controversy within the larger societal debate about gender roles, this text ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299145446
SKU
V9780299145446
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99-15
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